Guligeina, a PhD student and member of the Uighur ethnic minority, is missing. Family fear she is detained in a Chinese Government re-education camp.

China: Uighur student detained and at risk of torture

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Guligeina, a PhD student and member of the Uighur ethnic minority, is missing. Family fear she is detained in a Chinese Government re-education camp.

Guligeina just wanted to make sure her parents were safe. Now, her friends and family fear she has been detained in a Chinese Government re-education camp and is at risk of torture.

In December 2017, Guligeina left her PhD studies in Malaysia and returned home to Yili, in China’s Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. She was worried about her parents who she had been unable to contact since February 2017. She has not been heard from since.

Guligeina knew it would be dangerous, so she made a plan with her friend Sammy — if her social media profile photo changed weekly, that meant she was safe. But her photo only changed during her first week home, then remained the same for many weeks until, one day, it switched to a dark, gloomy photo that looked like a prison cell.

In the last year the Chinese Government has launched an unprecedented crackdown on Uighurs and other mostly Muslim ethnic minorities. People like Guligeina face arbitrary detention in re-education camps, technological surveillance, heavily armed street patrols and security checkpoints. People are often detained if they communicate with relatives overseas.

No one should face arbitrary and indefinite detention simply because they practice a particular religion or belong to an ethnic minority. Everyone should be free to visit family without fear of persecution.

Guligeina’s family don’t where she is, but they have grave fears for her safety. Please join with them and tell the Chinese Government to release Guligeina immediately.

Thank you!

UPDATE 28/09/18:This action is now closed in order to send the actions to the Chinese authorities. Thank you to the over 9,000 people who took action.

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Ambassador, Embassy of the People’s Republic of China, His Excellency Mr Cheng Jingye

Party Secretary of the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, Chen Quanguo

Minister of Public Security, Zhao Kezhi

Your Excellency / Dear Secretary / Dear Minister,

I am concerned for Guligeina Tashimaimaiti, who has not been heard from since 26 December 2017, when she returned from Malaysia to Yili, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. Her family fear that she has been detained at a re-education camp.

I ask you to release Guligeina Tashimaimaiti and drop any charges against her unless there is sufficient credible and admissible evidence that she has committed an internationally recognized offence. I also ask you to ensure that Guligeina Tashimaimaiti has regular, unrestricted access to a lawyer of her choice and her family, and is not subjected to torture or other ill-treatment.